![]() ![]() ![]() Various cultures have developed different associations with moustaches. Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev, Soviet military leader who reached Komandarm 1st rank and member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR from April 1924 to May 1927. Moustache popularity in the west peaked in the 1880s and 1890s coinciding with a popularity in the military virtues of the day. Later on, Welsh leaders and English royalty such as Edward of Wales, would also often wear only a moustache. One prominent example of the moustache in early medieval art is the Sutton Hoo helmet, an elaborately-decorated helmet sporting a faceplate depicting the style on its upper lip. Moustaches would not go away during the Middle Ages. Some of them shave the beard but others let it grow a little and the nobles shave their cheeks but they let the moustache grow until it covers the mouth. For they are always washing their hair in limewater and they pull it back from the forehead to the nape of the neck, with the result that their appearance is like that of Satyrs and Pans since the treatment of their hair makes it so heavy and coarse that it differs in no respect from the mane of horses. The Gauls are tall of body with rippling muscles and white of skin and their hair is blond, and not only naturally so for they also make it their practice by artificial means to increase the distinguishing colour which nature has given it. According to Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian: The earliest document of the usage of moustaches (without the beard) can be traced to Iron Age Celts. Stone sculpture of a Gaul wearing a torc, with curled moustache and eyebrows, c. Thus, the density and thickness of the moustache or beard may help to convey androgen levels or age. Research done on this subject has noticed that the prevalence of moustaches and facial hair in general rise and fall according to the saturation of the marriage market. Īn individual wearing a moustache is said to be "moustached" or "moustachioed" (the latter often referring to a particularly large or bushy moustache). The word "moustache" is French, and is derived from the Italian mustaccio (14th century), dialectal mostaccio (16th century), from Medieval Latin mustacchium (eighth century), Medieval Greek μουστάκιον ( moustakion), attested in the ninth century, which ultimately originates as a diminutive of Hellenistic Greek μύσταξ ( mustax, mustak-), meaning "upper lip" or "facial hair", probably derived from Hellenistic Greek μύλλον ( mullon), "lip". Count Gaishi Nagaoka, Japanese officer and Vice Chief of the General Staff in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history. A moustache ( UK: / m ə ˈ s t ɑː ʃ/ American English: mustache, / ˈ m ʌ s t æ ʃ/) is a growth of facial hair grown above the upper lip and under the nose. ![]()
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